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The movie juggles a cast of a round dozen characters seemingly effortlessly, and with enough skill and density that you feel like you know them far better than their actual screen time would warrant. The cast is first-rate, the acting is excellent, the direction keeps the story moving at an exciting clip, and the music is a perfect balance of hip-hop beats with a more traditional score.

Most importantly, the story veers away from exploitation and glamorization. Strike's miserable condition and his endless ulcers give us a portrait of a confused and misdirected life that feels sadly plausible. What's really interesting is how Lee enlists the setting of the movie as a sort of omnipresent background character - his camera is always roving around, showing us the little details, from the cyclone fencing to the burnt-out neon signs, that make up a ghetto. By the end of the movie, we know the charred landscape well enough to experience firsthand Strike's profound relief upon his eventual escape from it.

Powerful movie wit' a message
Clockers has a seemingly simple plot: the owner of a fast food restaurant is brutally murdered. there are two suspects. a law-abiding family man and his brother, a drug dealer AKA clocker(one who sells drugs around the clock,nonstop). when the law-abiding brother turns himself in for the crime, a police lieutenant suspects something is wrong. and he is determined to put the right man behind bars, not the wrong one. when its all over, it's not as simple as that.

that is what distinguishes this spike lee movie from so many other drug pushing crime movies out there. there is alot going on in this movie, some of it subliminally. characters are not cardboard cutouts, they are real. we know where they live, what they do, even what they drink and diseases they have. the clockers themselves know that the drugs are not good, they only sell them to make money. they don't use their merchandise themselves.

the cast is great with harvey keitel as the lieutenant, delroy lindo as the head of the local clockers, and mekhi pfifer in a stunning debut as the clocker in question. this young man needs to be offered more parts in hollywood.

this movie is powerful,gritty; a message is there if you look for it. anyone looking for a good movie should give Clockers a viewing.

Classic Gangsta Cinema from the hardest of hardcore Spike
Yo, you gotta buy this yo. This is where it all comes from. This is the movie that in the future will be viewed as the end all be all of gangsta movies. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of a smart teenage drug dealer as he grows up in Brooklyn and tries to gain a lucrative spot in the drug game off the benches. It shows with flashbacks and good storytelling how black on black crime is created and perpetuated in the hood: too many men dealing crack son. This teenage hardcore is called Strike and he must choose his path in life and one thing the movie makes abundantly clear: Strike can stop dealing anytime he wants. Strike has money and trains. Strike has people in the community including two understanding cops and a mother and a brother and a sister in law who would like to see him change his ways and the script shows that he can chance anytime. He can go into witness protection. He can just up and move and take his money elsewhere. He's smart. he can do alot of things, but he chooses to stay and be a dealer. Why? because the most father-like influence on him is a hard-boiled dealer played by Delroy Lindo who permeates the film with rationale evil and avarice that make bad leutenant look like good family fun. So in short, Spike is showing through Strike how all the black youth just need a good father figure to set them straight, stop dealing and raise a family like Strikes brother who is honorable and sympathetic to the extreme. The soundtrack is brilliantly wrought to effect sympathy and compassion from the audience while the shocking visual elements cause us to question our own society.